BEIRUT (AP) — A little white pill has given Syrian President Bashar Assad powerful leverage with his Arab neighbors, who have been willing to bring him out of pariah status in hopes he will stop the flow of highly addictive Captagon amphetamines out of Syria. Western governments have been...

German Federal Police have arrested a member in Essen city of a smugglers' network that brought more than 800 people to the European Union, mostly to Germany, Der Spiegel reported on Thursday. Policemen stormed a house in the Stein neighborhood of Essen and arrested the Syrian Abdel Hanan,...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that the U.S. would provide nearly $150 million in aid for areas in Syria and Iraq that were liberated from the Isamic State extremist group. He spoke at a ministerial conference hosted by Saudi Arabia on combatting the group, which no longer...

BERLIN (AP) — Six people have been arrested in Romania, Germany and Bulgaria in raids targeting a network alleged to have smuggled hundreds of migrants into Romania and Germany, authorities said Wednesday. Fifteen properties were searched on Wednesday, 11 of them in Romania, German federal...